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I generally believe Facebook and other social media platforms are bad. I can also absolutely recognize that most people complaining about them don't seem to art
by glasss 6y ago
I generally believe Facebook and other social media platforms are bad. I can also absolutely recognize that most people complaining about them don't seem to articulate their reasoning well or in some cases at all.
In the article, Matt claims
>There's a lot more that you have to do than just break them up. But the answer is, it would improve things dramatically if they were broken up, and you don't have to imagine it.
Facebook has been doing their practices that deserve criticism before they became a "financial conglomerate". If they are broken up, they will not stop poisoning people's news feed overnight. Things will NOT dramatically improve.
In fact I believe if Facebook is forced to break off instagram and other companies, things may get worse. They would need to try harder to make more revenue using less users / screen time.
Breaking up Facebook would most likely be a good thing, but I personally believe as long the news feed exists, the negatives that Facebook brings will be there.
- specialist 6y ago> ...forced to break off instagram and other companies, things may get worse. Empathic agreement. If the outrage machines are left intact, all the baby Facebooks will be incentivized to accelerate their race to the bottom.